With Great Pleasure

 

An Evening With Mr Leslie Thomas

 

Performed at the Cathedral School, Salisbury on 7th October, 1990

Directed by Michael Patterson

 

The Readers In Order of Speaking

Belinda Drew

Ken Spencer

Michael Patterson

Peter Scrivener

Dominic O'Farrell

 

With

Barbara Cowlard ... Piano

Christine Hilton ... Violin

 

Programme

Under the Greenwood Tree

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

Stopping By Woods

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Adlestrop

Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917)

This Time Next Week

Leslie Thomas

Music From Scheherezade

Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakof

Grantchester

Rupert Brook (1887 - 1915)

From The Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert

 

Music

Clair de Lune - Claude Debussy

Adventures in Prose (1911)

H N Brailsford

You Are In Bear Country

Canadian Tourist Board Publication

INTERVAL

Under Milk Wood

Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)

Music

From Antonin Dvorak's “New World” Symphony

If I Could Tell You

W H Auden (1907 - 1973)

Merchant Of Venice

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

When You Are Old

W B Yeats (1865 - 1939)

Music

Dusk by Armstrong Gibbs

A Shropshire Lad

A E Houseman (1859 - 1936)

Mary Queen Of Scots

Lady Antonia Froser

The Warden

Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)

Harrow On The Hill

John Betjeman (1906 - 1984)

Letter To Mrs Betjeman

Rev. F P Harton

Ten Times Table

Alan Ayckbourn